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More than 27 million people registered as voters, with a record 70 parties and 11 independent candidates contesting

Awkward religious ideas have spread after unprecedented floods devastated 90 percent of the cities in Rio Grande do Sul state earlier this month.

What is a national monument? Who gazettes them? How many national monuments are there in Singapore? To date, the Preservation of Sites and Monuments, a division of National Heritage Board, has identified and gazetted 75 buildings, structures and sites of national significance as an integral part of Singapore’s built heritage. And we're here to tell you all about them —...

Retired United Methodist Church Bishop João Somane Machado, who oversaw congregations in Mozambique and ordained the first female pastors in the country, has died at age 77.

(OSV News) -- Portugals Catholic Church has reiterated new safeguarding commitments in line with an independent commission on sexual abuse by clergy, although most of its dioceses also reported inconsistencies in the commissions findings. We renew our gratitude for the work carried out, which has made it possible to cross reference information between victim testimonies and data from our archives, the Portuguese bishops permanent council said March 14. We value public scrutiny and are fu

Catholic bishops reiterate new safeguarding commitments in line with the independent commission on clergy abuse

On 16 November, the Diocese of Tzaneen in South Africa celebrates the 50th anniversary of its establishment by decree of Pope Paul VI with Irish-born, John Durkin, as its first bishop. This is a typical story of how Irish and other missionaries built the Catholic Church across the continent of Africa. It also illustrates how their legacy lives on through the ministry of local and indigenous priests, nuns and brothers whom they recruited and trained.

The newly appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Mozambique’s Archdiocese of Maputo, Bishop João Carlos Hatoa Nunes,  has described his appointment as a surprise and called on the people of God in the Southern African nation to pray for him. 

The sense of communion among Church leaders is “a fruit of the Holy Spirit” in their respective lives, a Catholic Bishop in South Africa has said.  Bishop João Noé Rodrigues who was reflecting on the Prayer to the Holy Spirit in his homily at the opening Eucharistic Celebration for the…

“What a moment to be here physically after a long time as a conference”, said Bishop João Rodrigues, the Bishop of Tzaneen, in the opening words of his homily during the opening Mass of the Plenary Session. The plenary is taking place at St. John Vianney Seminary in Pretoria, the same place where the bishops last met physically for a plenary meeting back in January 2020.